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[KDroid]

So, we've an ODi coming up in 35 minutes.

India (possible): 1 Ajinkya Rahane, 2 Sachin Tendulkar, 3 Rahul Dravid, 4 Virat Kohli, 5 Suresh Raina, 6 Rohit Sharma, 7 MS Dhoni (capt / wk), 8 R Ashwin, 9 Praveen Kumar, 10 Munaf Patel, 11 R Vinay Kumar

England win the toss, and Cook has decided to bowl. There's a bit of cloud cover and England expect the juice to help them. Graeme Swann is out injured, Samit Patel is their main spin option. Ben Stokes is playing too.

England 1 Alastair Cook (capt), 2 Craig Kieswetter (wk), 3 Jonathan Trott, 4 Ian Bell, 5 Eoin Morgan, 6 Ben Stokes, 7 Samit Patel, 8 Tim Bresnan, 9 Stuart Broad, 10 James Anderson, 11 Jade Dernbach.

The big news for India is that Tendulkar is not playing. A groan emanates from the crowd the moment MS Dhoni reveals this. The wait for the 100th ton continues then. Ajinkya Rahane will get an ODI debut today. India's top three - Rahane, Parthiv and Dravid - weren't in the World Cup squad. Neither was Praveen Kumar or Vinay Kumar. This is Bizarroworld.

Hello folks, welcome to the latest installment of India's search for a win against England.

[sujoyp]

Tendulkar not playing thats a sad news but ajinka rahane seems a good player...

greame swann is also not playing

[KDroid]

So Far.. So Good..

India 62/0 (12.3 ov)

[sujoyp]

its 131/2 in 27 over....good score

chutku parthiv patel playing good...even ajinkya rahane scored 40 good runs

[sujoyp]

wow what an injury list
Sehwag
gauti
tendulkar
yuvraj
zaheer
harbhajan
ishant
Rohit sharma


we will have India A team competing

parthiv patel
ajinkya rahane
badrinath
virat kohli
manoj tiwari
raina
pravin kumar
vinay kumar
Ashwin
munafpatel

Rahul Dravid
Dhoni

[KDroid]

wow what an injury list
Sehwag
gauti
tendulkar
yuvraj
zaheer
harbhajan
ishant
Rohit sharma


we will have India A team competing

parthiv patel
ajinkya rahane
badrinath
virat kohli
manoj tiwari
raina
pravin kumar
vinay kumar
Ashwin
munafpatel

Rahul Dravid
Dhoni

Yeah!

Btw, we could have won the first ODI if rain was not to interrupt.

[sujoyp]

yaah true...we would have won it.

even if we would have D/L method we would have won it...even rain god is not with us

there was lots of hype about our bench strength last year..lets see if they can perform

[sujoyp]

this amazing series we saw some young blood performing and some seniors running back to india to practice champions league

The wall retired from ODI after playing for 15 years...good luck to him

Dhoni made 3 half centuries back to back soo I give him credit for good play

No bowler made any super efforts...maybe pravin kumar is the best of the lot

We lost Test 4-0
20-20 - 1-0
ODI - 4-0

Now we are world number 5 in ODI and I think world no 3 in Test

Lets forget all statistics and enjoy champions league

[Ronnie11]

my prob is y didn't we try varun aaron & manoj tiwary more??Aaron wasn't used at all..vinay kumar got a call above him..ridiculous really...

[KDroid]

Mumbai Indians 50/5 (11.3/20 ov)

[ico]

jabh bhi Yindia cricket match haarta hai....har Yindan k andar ka Cricket expert ujaagar hota hai.

[KDroid]

^ Lol.. I read a very good Satire on this topic... Let me search the link...

[sujoyp]

kunal at last mumbai indians made 100 a defendable target for malinga

NSW 16/2

[KDroid]

At one Point, NSW were 28/5. Then too, they managed to win (by 5 wickets with 3 overs remaining) !

Dhoni recently asked for rest claiming to be tired. Why the hell is he playing in the Champions League then? (Look, I'm not asking for reason. Everyone of us knows it!)

[KDroid]

Oh, Yeah! We've one two in a row!

[thetechfreak]

I hope India can whitewash the series.

[azzu]

^ sure thats a possibility

[KDroid]

Let's see..

[thetechfreak]

India 150/4

Overs- 33.4

[KDroid]

from 80/0 to 80/3

206/6 43.4 ov

[thetechfreak]

Raina Runout was very bad

[KDroid]

Very nicely finished by MS. 271! I did not expect it!

[ico]

Test cricket is real cricket. I can foresee retarded Team BCCI fans celebrating like no end if we win 5-0. But the fact is, Indian pitches are flat and suck. Still waiting for the customary average boosting test series at home.

Good to see young players performing though. Jadeja is a different player now and Rahane has good potential.

[d6bmg]

Test cricket is real cricket. I can foresee retarded Team BCCI fans celebrating like no end if we win 5-0. But the fact is, Indian pitches are flat and suck. Still waiting for the customary average boosting test series at home.

Good to see young players performing though. Jadeja is a different player now and Rahane has good potential.

+1 to bolder part. Indian cricket team always tend to get over those overseas tour by winning big in India, and as we all know public memory is very sort. 2-3 good performance, and they will forget previous continuous bad performance.

[thetechfreak]

Clean sweep complete

[azzu]

he fact is, Indian pitches are flat and suck.

The real fact is , All the Asian Pitches are similar ..
u cant change something that is geographical ..

English people r accustomed to their and Indians to their(our)..

it wud b interesting if we could see how they perform on a neutral venue though.

eager to see how AAron performs in the future.(if he is picked for further series)

[Krow]

Winning matters. They make pitches suited to their bowlers. Even their spinners couldn't perform well on 'spin-friendly' tracks.

[Ronnie11]

Indian batting back to being ****..carried forward from england...

[sujoyp]

but openers played well today...both sehwag and gambhir practicing for next ODI series in Australia

Dont worry WI will be all out in 200 run and we will win

[Ronnie11]

but openers played well today...both sehwag and gambhir practicing for next ODI series in Australia

Dont worry WI will be all out in 200 run and we will win

200+the lead..will take it to 300+ & india has been struggling to score even 300